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The Amalgamated Banks of South Africa Tower (simply Absa Tower or ABSA Tower) is an office skyscraper in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is 31 storeys tall. It is also the headquarters of Absa Group Limited .
ABSA Tower Building 132 38 1976 3 Kruger Park Building 120 33 1985 4 Telkom Tower North 115.5 [3] 26 1965 [4] 5 Civitas Building 112 31 1973 6
It was the first building in South Africa taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza (138.5 m (454 ft)), which had been the continent's tallest structure from its completion ca. 2600 BC until overtaken by Cairo Tower in 1961. Southern Life Centre: 138 m (453 ft) 30: 1973: Johannesburg [9] Monte Blanc: 133 m (436 ft) 40: 1985: Durban [10] ABSA Tower ...
At 223 metres (730 ft), it was the tallest building in Africa for 46 years and stands at about half the height of the Willis Tower (the former Sears Tower) in Chicago. It was the tallest building in the southern hemisphere when originally completed, and remains the fifth-tallest building in Africa and the second-tallest in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mohammed VI Tower in Rabat, Morocco Nairobi, Kenya Cairo, Egypt Cape Town, South Africa Dar es Salaam, Tanzania This article ranks the tallest skyscrapers on the African continent by height. Initially, only a small number of major financial and commercial centres boasted large skylines, such as Cairo , Johannesburg , Lagos and Nairobi .
Absa Bank Limited is a 100 percent subsidiary of Absa Group Limited, the Pan African financial services conglomerate headquartered in South Africa, with subsidiaries in 12 African countries, whose total assets exceeded US$91 billion as at October 2019.
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The Carlton Centre is a 50-storey skyscraper and shopping centre located on Commissioner Street in central Johannesburg, South Africa.At 223 metres (732 ft), it was the tallest building in Africa for 46 years from its completion in 1973 until 2019.